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Princeton's WordNet

  1. needed, needful, required, requisiteadjective

    necessary for relief or supply

    "provided them with all things needful"

  2. compulsory, mandatory, requiredadjective

    required by rule

    "in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading"

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  1. required

    Required refers to something that is made necessary or is demanded by circumstances, law, rule, regulation or by a particular situation. It usually implies that there will be consequences for non-compliance or not fulfilling the stated necessary condition or task.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Required

    of Require

Editors Contribution

  1. required

    For a specific purpose.

    They required passports to travel abroad.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 1, 2020  


  2. requiredverb

    Verb form of the word require.

    They required many people to prepare the field for the wedding, all gathered and it was completed efficiently.


    Submitted by MaryC on August 12, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'required' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #645

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'required' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2094

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'required' in Adjectives Frequency: #609

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of required in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of required in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of required in a Sentence

  1. Crispin Blunt:

    My office's calculation based on an in-service date of 2028 and a missile extension until 2060... the total cost is 167 billion pounds, the successor Trident program is going to consume more than double the proportion of the defense budget of its predecessor... The price required, both from the UK taxpayer and our conventional forces, is now too high to be rational or sensible.

  2. Peter Yeo:

    Madeleine Albright has been a communicator more than a policy person, so Madeleine Albright'll be quickly put to the test with the on-the-spot negotiations required at United Nations. Although the position won't be Cabinet level, it remains unclear whether Madeleine Albright'll be a separate center of power on United Nations issues in the Nikki Haley fashion.

  3. President Barack Obama:

    Our armed forces will draw on an even wider pool of talent. Women who can meet the high standards required will have new opportunities to serve.

  4. Adam McKellips:

    If we take off one day for a sickness, we are required to [work] 14 days straight to gain points back. That is why we are fighting tooth and nail for sick days.

  5. Pima County Attorney Laura Conover:

    Our criminal prosecutors conducted a preliminary review to determine what additional aspects of the incident required further investigation to do this case justice, by early summer, it became clear we would begin the work to convene a grand jury to seek criminal charges.

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